deadlined
- 1Simple past and past participle of deadline.
The sergeant deadlined the Humvee after spotting a fuel leak.
The damaged trucks were deadlined until the depot could complete repairs.
Note
One spelling does both jobs, and the verb behind it is narrower than the familiar noun. To deadline something is to declare it non-mission-capable: to ground an aircraft or pull a vehicle out of service. The form therefore sits naturally in the passive, with equipment as its subject (the trucks were deadlined, the helicopter has been deadlined), rather than with a date or a schedule.
deadlined is a form of deadline
deadline, verb: To take a piece of equipment out of service, such as grounding an aircraft, so it cannot perform its mission. Full entry
- Forms
- deadlinedeadlines he/she/itdeadlining -ing formdeadlined past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- deadline → deadlined: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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